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The Passenger For stores with strong track records with travel writing and memoirs such as E. J. Koh¿s The Magical Language of Others.Chaney Kwak weaves personal experience into events spanning decades and continents¿even as he tells the story of being a passenger on a sinking cruise ship. The cruise ship may not be the only sinking ship he needs to escape.A debut title by a freshly observant, and often very funny, voice. Chaney Kwak is an extremely tall, gay, Korean-American travel writer who lives in San Franciso.

Lyric and tender one moment, cruel and dizzying the next, this literary tour de force neither celebrates perversity nor laments it, rather it projects it as part of man's impossible quest for a true self. In 49 brief, highly cinematic chapters, we meet a series of twisted but sincere searchers, each in their own flight from despair.

"Andre Dubus, one of the 20th century's most gifted short story writers."-The New York TimesWhen Andre Dubus's first book of stories, Separate Flights arrived in 1975, it was immediately celebrated as the arrival of a new and important voice in American fiction. Two years later came Adultery and Other Choices and Dubus' reputation rose even higher.Both books are now collected in We Don't Live Here Anymore, the first in the three-volume Collected Short Stories and Novellas by Andre Dubus. "The stories are about how people must make accommodations once they find out there's no winning," Ann Beattie writes in her introduction. While the collection's opening stories focus on the fragile nature of youth, later stories shift to darker struggles of adulthood, such as in "Andromache"-Dubus's first story to appear in The New Yorker-which traces the aftermath of a tragic death during wartime.Collected Short Stories and Novellas by Andre Dubus includes We Don't Live Here Anymore, The Winter Father, and The Cross Country Runner. All three contain work by an American master, perfect for anyone who loves stories of the human heart and where it can lead us.

One day, and one night, on a rural Swedish farm during which the young daughter of the farmer marries the considerably older village butcher. In a burlesque and often comical style, Stig Dagerman explores the eternal themes of existential loneliness and a longing for connection through the many characters. It is also here that he, for himself, stakes out a different path toward inner freedom. This was Stig Dagerman's last novel, by many considered his best. This edition includes an introduction by Nobel Prize winner, J. M. G. Le Clézio.

Among the best writers this company has published is Ireland's Benedict Kiely. His first book to be released in this country, The State of Ireland, received a front page New York Times Book Review notice in which Guy Davenport wrote, "The first meaning of 'the state of Ireland' is that it's a place where stories are still told, deliciously and by masters of the art, of whom Benedict Kiely is one, perhaps the foremost." This collection was followed by novels, story collections and a separate printing of what William Kennedy called "a small masterpiece," Proxopera, Kiely's moving and memorable anti-war fable (which, especially in these times, bears reading and re-reading). This treasure chest of a book, containing his complete short stories and novellas, spans forty years, and introduces another generation to one of the great prose stylists of our age, a man who possesses "a unique voice," and whose "technique is so good as to be invisible." For this edition we have included some sixteen stories never published before in the USA, a new introduction by the author, as well as his afterword to Proxopera. At almost 800 pages, this is the most extensive and ambitious work of fiction our small company has ever issued. Kiely is a member of a select club that includes Chekhov, Welty, Peter Taylor, and another author whose work we championed, Andre Dubus - all writers whose stories cut close to the bone and near to the heart.

Once upon a time, there lived in Spain a bull named Ferdinand. While his brothers liked to charge around the field, butt their heads together and to generally act ferocious, Ferdinand liked nothing better than to sit under the cork tree and smell the flowers. He was a placid and a gentle bull whose only desire in life was to be let alone.

A collection of love stories in the broadest sense, exploring the boundaries between self and others, the half-light of betrayal, the darkness of ethnic and racial tensions and the love between parents and child.

The Secret Garden, a real children's classic, has been cherished by generations of readers since its first appearance in 1911. In what is certainly the most beautiful full color edition of this acknowledged children's classic, Mary Lennox, a sullen, spoiled child, comes to live with her English uncle after her parents' deaths. Implanted in Misselthwaite Manor on the baleful moors of Yorkshire, she meets a hearty housekeeper and her spirited brother, a dear gardener, a cheerful robin, and Master Colin, her willful, mysterious, sickly cousin. The robin helps Mary find the door to the secret garden, and from there the story takes the reader on a spellbinding journey into the places of the heart where faith restores health, where flowers refresh the spirit, and where the magic of a garden coming to life after years of neglect serves as a metaphor for the miraculous recovery of an invalid boy. The characters and the story are as fresh today as they were when the book was first published. Graham Rust's illustrations, with their delicate period flavor and detail, bring to life the whole cast of characters and, of course, the secret garden itself "¬‚¬" "the sweetest, most mysterious-looking place anyone could imagine."

A glorious celebration of a lifetime love affair with the art of dining, by the author of the classic Madeline series. Illustrated.

A sumptuous celebration of children's picture books as art and literature.

The definitive life of Charles Bukowski: literary legend and outlaw.

A debut prose-poem collection from the cult singer-songwriter.

How baseball evolved with shocking speed from a casual folk game into a serious adult activity, an instrument of national unification and then a national entertainment industry.

A family's only hope is that love is stronger than grief.

A beloved short story collection-now in a new paperback edition with a never-before published story and an afterword by the author.

The third volume in Godines 2018 re-issue of the short stories and novellas of Andre Dubus, The Cross Country Runner brings together his 1986 collection Last Worthless Evening and Voices from the Moonhis longest, most masterful novellawith previously uncollected stories, and a new introduction by PEN Faulkner Award-winning author Tobias Wolff.

West of Rome's two novellas, "My Dog Stupid" and "The Orgy," fulfill the promise of their rousing titles. The latter novella opens with virtuoso description: "His name was Frank Gagliano, and he did not believe in God. He was that most singular and startling craftsman of the building trade-a left-handed bricklayer. Like my father, Frank came from Torcella Peligna, a cliff-hugging town in the Abruzzi. Lean as a spider, he wore a leather cap and puttees the year around, and he was so bowlegged a dog could lope between his knees without touching them."

K.C. Constantine¿s Mario Balzic is one of those police chiefs so close to his people that nothing moves or even sits still in his town without his knowing how and why. His town is Rocksburg, a small coal mining town in western Pennsylvania where most of the coal has run out.Tomatoes curiously ripening out of season are the key. It begins at Muscotti¿s Bar, Balzic¿s refuge, when Jimmy Romanelli sells several baskets of tomatoes to Vinnie, Muscotti¿s barkeep. It ends some weeks later after three deaths and a drained, disgusted Balzic, unable to take any satisfaction in his solution of Romanelli¿s murder, the proximate cause for Jimmy¿s twisted passion for growing tomatoes.

Focuses on those members of the animal kingdom whose habits are disagreeable, whose appearances are repellent, and whose continued existence need not necessarily be a foregone conclusion.

Perec has rightfully assumed his position in the pantheon of truly original writers of the past century. Godine has issued all but one is his books in this country, including his masterpiece Life A User's Manual. Here, in one volume, are three "easy pieces" by the master of the verbal firecracker and Gallic wit. The novella "The Exeter Text" contains all those E's that were omitted from A Void (Perec hated waste) and no other vowel (honest). In "Which Moped with Chrome-Plated Handlebars at the Back of the Yard?" we are introduced to Sergeant Henri Pollak and his vehicle (the aforementioned moped) that carried him between Vincennes and Montparnasse; in "A Gallery Portrait," the sensation of the 1913 exhibition in Pittsburgh depicts the artists' patron, beer baron Hermann Raffke, sitting in front of his huge art collection, which includes (of course) "A Gallery Portrait" of the baron sitting before "A Gallery Portrait," etc.

Catherine, the eponymous heroine, spent her childhood in Paris. In her youth, she lived with her gentle father, Georges Certitude. The real partners in this story are the father and daughter who share the simple pleasures of daily life: sitting in the church square, walking to school, and going to her ballet class every Thursday afternoon.

The photography of Angus McBean encompasses more than three decades of the history of British theatre. This illustrated book features 120 images - reproduced from McBean's original negatives - of some the greatest stars of Twentieth-century British theatre.

Henrietta has big dreams for a little chicken: learning to sing, to swim, to fly, and to lay golden eggs. Even when her fellow inmates in the henhouse laugh at her ambitions, she holds fast. Whether she achieves her dreams is debatable, but through her persistence, she does manage to change the lives of everyone in the henhouse for the better.

For creatures that slither, creep, and crawl (not to mention kick, bite, scratch, and play nasty tricks), Rotten Island is paradise. But then, on a typically rotten day, something truly awful happens. Something that could spoil Rotten Island forever. Out of a bed of gravel on the scorched earth, a mysterious, beautiful flower begins to grow.

Tom is happy with his new Aunt Bundlejoy Cosysweet who is delighted to be asked to join him in his latest invention, a jam-powered frog. When the frog hops past Captain Najork's window, Tom does not expect to be chased by a pedal powered snake, complete with the Captain and his hired sportsmen, bent on revenge.

These are not your ordinary opposites, they are EXTREME! Extremely funny and extremely clever, combining superlatives and opposites. Knights and dragons, castaways and off-hour Santas, dinosaurs and pirates, mimes and scuba divers populate this imaginative universe. And with just two words per page, you and your little one will have more time to linger over the irresistible illustrations and relish this recital of reverse attractions.

Founded in 1815, the Handel and Haydn Society is the oldest continuously performing arts organization in America. Presented in full colour with photographs and artefacts, this is a tribute to the many individuals who collaborated and created in the name of music, and who made this institution a model of its kind.

Includes fifteen "detective puzzles," the unravelling of which requires you to develop your latent powers of observation and deduction. In words, charts, and diagrams, this work puts you at the crime scene and presents you with the facts established by the police.